About Tobacco Induced Diseases

What is Tobacco Induced Diseases?

Tobacco Induced Diseases, the official journal of the International Society for the Prevention of Tobacco Induced Diseases, is an open access, peer-reviewed online journal that encompasses all aspects of tobacco induced diseases and their prevention. The aim of the journal is to further the development of the scientific basis for the biological effects of tobacco smoke and its active components and to describe the distribution of tobacco diseases throughout the world.

The journal encourages the submission of articles from all medical, biological and psychosocial disciplines to match the multidisciplinary audience of the journal and the International Society for the Prevention of Tobacco Induced Diseases, ranging from medical and dental clinicians, through nurses and health professionals to basic biomedical scientists.

Content overview

Tobacco Induced Diseases considers the following types of articles:

• Research: reports of data from original research.
• Reviews: comprehensive, authoritative, descriptions of any subject within the journal's scope. These articles are usually written by opinion leaders that have been invited by the Editorial Board.
• Book reviews: short summaries of the strengths and weaknesses of a book, evaluating its overall usefulness to the intended audience.
• Case studies: descriptions of a major healthcare intervention, usually from a public health perspective. Case study articles should include a rigorous assessment of the processes and impact of the intervention as well as recommendations for future interventions.
• Letters to the Editor: can take three forms: a substantial re-analysis of a previously published article, or a substantial response to such a re-analysis from the authors of the original publication, or an article that may not cover 'standard research' but that may be relevant to readers.
• Short reports: brief reports of data from original research.

Peer review policy

Tobacco Induced Diseases operates a closed peer review process on all manuscripts and reviews approved via initial screening by the Editor-in-Chief. Manuscripts written on behalf of the tobacco industry or based on a grant by the tobacco industry will be rejected without being reviewed.

Edited by J. Elliott Scott, Tobacco Induced Diseases is supported by an international Editorial Board.

Publishing in Tobacco Induced Diseases

All articles will be listed in PubMed immediately upon acceptance (after peer review), and will be covered by PubMed Central.

Articles in Tobacco Induced Diseases should be cited in the same way as articles in a traditional journal. However, because articles in this journal are not printed, they do not have page numbers. Instead, they have a unique article number.

The following citation:

Tob. Induced Dis. 2004, 2:1

refers to article 1 from volume 2 of the journal.

As an online journal, Tobacco Induced Diseases does not have issue numbers. Each volume corresponds to a calendar year.

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Submission of manuscripts

Manuscripts should be submitted electronically to Tobacco Induced Diseases using the online submission system. Full details of how to submit a manuscript are given in the instructions for authors.

General journal policies

Tobacco Induced Diseases is published  by BioMed Central, an independent publisher committed to ensuring peer-reviewed biomedical research is Open Access. That means it is freely and universally accessible online, it is archived in at least one internationally recognised free access repository, and its authors retain copyright, allowing anyone to reproduce or disseminate articles, according to the BioMed Central copyright and licence agreement. Tobacco Induced Diseases however, has taken this further by making all its content Open Access.

Tobacco Induced Diseases's articles are archived in PubMed Central, the US National Library of Medicine's full-text repository of life science literature, and also in repositories at the University of Potsdam in Germany, at INIST in France and in e-Depot, the National Library of the Netherlands' digital archive of all electronic publications. The journal is also participating in the British Library's e-journals pilot project, and plans to deposit copies of all articles with the British Library.

BioMed Central is working closely with the Thomson Reuters (ISI) to ensure that citation analysis of articles published in Tobacco Induced Diseases will be available.

Tobacco Induced Diseases is able to deliver summaries of frequently updated content via Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds. These are accessible via the orange "XML" button at the top of the list of recent articles or the list of most accessed articles. For more information about RSS feeds see our publisher's website.

For further information about general policies please see the instructions for authors.